https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43917

--- Comment #14 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> (In reply to comment #12)
>> If a script to delete empty messages existed in the past, we could've run it
>> once globally after we reverted the feature to have blank messages mean
>> default. But it has been to long to do this now.
> 
> What do you mean too long? It's been today for Wikipedias (1.22wmf7). Blank
> message has always meant "equal to default", so it doesn't seem out of scope
> for the script, which should be run by third parties before upgrading to
> MediaWiki 1.22.

Not always. The behavior has switched a few times now.

There's no good answer here. It's impossible to determine intent simply by
page_len being equal to 0. I tend to agree with Krinkle that it's better to be
cautious here.

Even the "redundant" messages getting deleted makes me a little sad, given how
useful some of that page history can be (including being linked from active bug
reports). But I understand that it's better future-proofing. Alas.

> [...] [[MediaWiki 1.22]] [...]

You mean [[mw:MediaWiki 1.22]], of course.

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